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Mindeli, L.; Chernykh, S. – Russian Education and Society, 2010
One of the most important factors that determine the state of science potential and, in the long run, the successful results of scientific and technical activity, is its financing. All developed countries conduct an incentive policy to encourage their national science, including systematic support from state budgets for scientific research and…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Foreign Countries, Science Projects, Scientific Research
Guichon, Nicolas – Computer Assisted Language Learning, 2010
This case study paves the way for a research and development project aiming to design a desktop videoconferencing platform specifically dedicated to synchronous language teaching. It starts by defining a model of language pedagogy adapted to distance and taking into account the affordances of videoconferencing for language teaching. It then…
Descriptors: Feedback (Response), Second Language Learning, Second Language Instruction, Focus Groups
Booth, Laura B.; Peek, Gina G. – Journal of Extension, 2013
This article highlights the accomplishments of the Healthy Homes Partnership, which recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. Since the program began in 1999, funds totaling $2.7 million have been distributed to 34 states and Virgin Islands Extension programs through a competitive process. Extension professionals have used the funds as seed grants…
Descriptors: Extension Education, Financial Support, Grants, Outreach Programs
Board of Governors, State University System of Florida, 2015
This Accountability Report shows the status and progression of Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University (FAMU) from one year to the next. The Executive Summary is divided into the following sections: (1) Dashboard; (2) Key Achievements; and (3) Narrative. Data tables on FAMU's financial resources, personnel, enrollment, undergraduate…
Descriptors: Agricultural Education, Accountability, Educational Finance, School Personnel
Universities UK, 2009
The issue of the concentration of research funding within the UK higher education sector and the implications of such concentration for the health and diversity of the research base have been monitored by Universities UK for several years. In 2003 the authors commissioned a first report from Evidence Ltd on the potential impact of proposals on…
Descriptors: Higher Education, Foreign Countries, Educational Change, Research and Development
Woods, Juliann; Snyder, Patricia – Infants and Young Children, 2009
This article examines issues associated with the preparation of doctoral-level personnel to assume interdisciplinary scholarship and leadership roles in early intervention (EI). Following a review of national reports focused on EI doctoral leadership training, the preparation of educational researchers, and interdisciplinary doctoral programs in…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Doctoral Programs, Leadership Training, Educational Researchers
Kynigos, Chronis; Psycharis, Giorgos – International Journal of Computers for Mathematical Learning, 2009
The paper describes a study of the contexts of six teams, expert in research and development of digital media for learning mathematics, who cross-experimented in classrooms with the use of each other's artefacts. Contextual issues regarding the designed tasks and technologies, the socio-systemic milieu and the ways in which the researchers worked…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Context Effect, Experiments, Mathematics Instruction
Penders, Bart; Verbakel, John M. A.; Nelis, Annemiek – Bulletin of Science, Technology & Society, 2009
Laboratory ethnographies have provided valuable insights in the workings of contemporary science and technology and about facts in the making. Nearly all these ethnographic studies have been conducted at nonprofit research institutes. In this article, the authors argue that it is time for science and technology studies (STS) ethnography to direct…
Descriptors: Ethnography, Science and Society, Private Sector, Corporations
Basken, Paul – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
After a month of celebrating the largest boost in federal spending on scientific research that most of them have ever seen, university presidents are increasingly tuned to the possibility of a downside. The new money--primarily from a $21.5-billion jump in research-and-development spending in the economic-stimulus law--is certainly welcome,…
Descriptors: Scientific Research, Federal Aid, Job Development, Employment Opportunities
Labi, Aisha – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2009
In what university officials say represents a new approach to the internationalization of higher education, Columbia University is building a network of six to eight research institutes in capitals around the world. The Columbia Global Centers, as they are called, are designed for faculty members and students from various disciplines to…
Descriptors: Higher Education, International Educational Exchange, Research and Development Centers, Global Approach
Sulzer-Azaroff, Beth; Hoffman, Anne O.; Horton, Catherine B.; Bondy, Andrew; Frost, Lori – Focus on Autism and Other Developmental Disabilities, 2009
Originally designed to enable young children with autism lacking functional communication to initiate requests and to describe what they observed, the Picture Exchange Communication System (PECS) has been the subject of an ever-expanding body of research and development. Thirty-four peer-reviewed published reports on PECS are analyzed in this…
Descriptors: Research and Development, Autism, Assistive Technology, Augmentative and Alternative Communication
Winokur, Marc A.; Valentine, Deborah P.; Drendel, James M. – Research on Social Work Practice, 2009
The Social Work Research Center is an innovative university-community partnership within the School of Social Work in the College of Applied Human Sciences at Colorado State University. The center is focused on working with county and state child welfare agencies to generate applied research that translates into evidence-based practice for serving…
Descriptors: Child Welfare, Welfare Services, Social Work, Research and Development Centers
Simkins, Michael – Technology & Learning, 2008
Robots that can learn new behaviors. Robots that can reproduce themselves. Science fiction? Not anymore. Roboticists at Cornell's Computational Synthesis Lab have developed just such engineered creatures that offer interesting implications for education. The team, headed by Hod Lipson, was intrigued by the question, "How can you get robots to be…
Descriptors: Robotics, Research and Development, Technological Advancement, Scientific Research
Gray, Denis O. – New Directions for Evaluation, 2008
The rise of the research center has changed the landscape of U.S. research enter-prise. It has also created a number of evaluation challenges, particularly when considering strategically focused, multifaceted cooperative research centers (CRCs). The author argues that although recent CRC evaluation efforts have gone a long way toward meeting the…
Descriptors: Research and Development Centers, Program Evaluation, Accountability, Formative Evaluation
Kalinowski, Michael – Exchange: The Early Childhood Leaders' Magazine Since 1978, 2008
This article highlights the Child Study and Development Center (CSDC), which serves as a child development laboratory for the University of New Hampshire: a place to educate students, support research, and serve the university and local communities. The center has seven classrooms with observation booths, 122 children aged 6 weeks to 6 years in…
Descriptors: Research and Development Centers, Child Development, Institutional Research, Program Descriptions